Oil on Canvas board, framed

62 x 45 cm

About the artwork:

These paintings are about solitude, transition, and the quiet weight of being present. The draped figures lean into a kind of contemplative stillness—muted tones, layers of white fabric building slowly, like the grey crouched figure in oil. The Memory She Holds comes through in softer yellows, while another draped form pulls itself out of darkness in the studio pieces. There's also a thread running through figures in solitary, in-between spaces—caught somewhere between leaving and arriving, their intentions never quite clear. Everything stays subtle and muted, trying to hold onto what slips away: a gesture, a moment, someone passing through.

About the artist:

Rhoda strives to form a bridge between figuration and abstraction, particularly in relationship to the human form. Graduating in 2015 from Curtin University with an honours degree in fine art, she has maintained an ongoing dialogue with the history of art, particularly, in relationship to painting. Her work employs traditional painting techniques such as chiaroscuro, glazing and scumbling along with more contemporary, a la prima techniques and the use of pastels. She has travelled extensively around Europe observing the works of the great masters and studied with some living masters in Italy. This has had a big influence on her development as an artist. She has developed her painting and drawing skills by hours spent in the studio and by painting and drawing from life and live models. She is involved in the Perth life drawing scene and is involved in running various painting and drawing groups.